Rabelais Inc.

Atkinson, Edward

The Science of Nutrition. Treatise Upon the Science of Nutrition; The Aladdin Oven, What It is. What It Does. How It Does It. Dietaries Carefully Computed (under the direction of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards. Tests of the Slow Methods of Cooking in the Aladdin Oven, etc., etc.

Boston: Damrell & Upham / The Old Corner Bookstore, 1894. Octavo, 179, [ii] pages. Illustrated. Later printing, originally issued in 1892. A combination treatise on nutrition, cookbook and technical manual for the Aladdin Oven, invented by our author Edward Atkinson. "Men have no right to scold their wives, or use swear words about the cook, and find fault with their meals in a constant and promiscuous way, if they only.....

Price: $90.00

Child, Julia

Julia Child & Company

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Quarto, x, 243 pages. FIRST EDITION, first printing. The first of two books written to accompany Julia Child's second television series, following the French Chef. Some light edge wear and bumping to publisher's decorated white cloth. In a price-clipped and edge worn dust jacket. Small chip to head of spine. Near very good. Inscribed on the title page, "To Kelsie, Julia Child, Paul Child".....

Price: $250.00

[Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral (Lexington, Ky.); Womans Guild]

A Book of Recipes. Second and Improved edition, compiled by the Womans Guild of Christ Church Cathedral.

Lexington, Kentucky: [The Church; Printed by] Press of James M. Byrnes Co., 1926. Octavo (21 x 14.75 cm.), 122 pages. Advertisements. “Index” is actually a table of contents. ~ Stated “second and improved edition.” A church cookbook from the heart of the Bluegrass interior, with three hundred fifty recipes, a few of them attributed. Among those of more than passing interest: Kentucky Spoon Bread, Currant Loaf, Gritts Muffins, Buckwheat Cakes.....

Price: $120.00

De Wolfe, Elsie (Lady Mendl)

Elsie De Wolfe's Recipes for Successful Dining.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 102 pages. Index. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann issued the book in England the same year. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of.....

Price: $500.00

Johnson, Ronald

Aficionado's Southwestern Cooking.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1968. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), x, 124 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The author's first cookbook. While this small work is far from the first American cookbook to treat Mexican, or Mexican-American cooking, it is one of the first truly sympathetic and respectful accounts of the cuisine. The author is also well-known for his poetry, and the complete body of his cookbooks is seen.....

Price: $60.00

Lindgren, Don & Mark Germer

UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place. Volume 1, Alabama – District of Columbia.

Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....

Price: $50.00

[Manuscript – recipe scrapbook]

Scrapbook containing individual recipes in French and English.

England, France: [circa 1840-1910]. Quarto-sized scrapbook (28.5 x 23 cm.), with twenty-three individual recipe sheets pasted-in. Texts in English and French. An odd collection of loose recipes on individual sheets. We've been unable to make sense of the particular selection, which includes a number of duplicate recipes, for rather unusual dishes, appearing side by side. Three of the recipes are on printed stationery. Recipes include: [illeg.] Glace, Pouding au Chocolat.....

Price: $250.00

[Richmond Stove Company (Norwich, Conn.)]

The Richmond Receipts with Hints and Helps for Mother, Daughter and Wife.

Norwich, Conn. [Richmond Stove Company, circa 1885]. Duodecimo (16.5 x 13 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. Date of issue surmised from patent information. Representative's stamp on cover: J. H. Wells, sole agent for Richmond Ranges, Stoves, and Furnaces, Portsmouth, N.H. True to its word, Richmond Receipts provides "hints and helps" beyond what is needed for baking and roasting – including a few entries for ice cream – in about one hundred.....

Price: $350.00

[Thomas Bradford & Co. (Manchester, UK)]

Cooking apparatus: Section VI of Bradford's catalogue for the information of architects, borough surveyors, and civil engineers.

Manchester: Thomas Bradford & Co., 1903. Quarto (23 x 20 cm.), 68 pages. Illustrated. Index. Catalogue 1159. A trade catalogue of cooking apparatus from Thomas Bradford & Co., operators of Crescent Iron Works of Salford. The ‘Cooking Appliances and Kitchen Scullery Fittings’ delineated include, Steam Cooking Pans, Beef Tea Cooking Pans, Vegetable and Pudding Steam Ovens, Kitchen Ranges, Gas Roasting Oven, Steam Carving Table and Hot Closet, Steam Hot Closet.....

Price: $350.00